Three experts have been tapped for an independent review board to investigate a heap leach failure in June at Victoria Gold’s Eagle operation in the Yukon province of Canada, CBC News reported. The three members appointed to the board are Jean-Marie Konrad, a geotechnical expert who has consulted for projects related to things such as permafrost engineering and dam construction;…
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Knowledge systems and the mine of the future
Can the mining industry achieve its data-driven goals? By Rudy Moctezuma Superior productivity, efficiency, safety and ESG excellence: these are what today’s mines strive for. To realize these goals, they recognize their data plays a crucial role and that their improvements are limited by the extent of their capability to extract knowledge from their data. To tackle this difficult task,…
Read MoreMSHA: No mining operation meets POV criteria
For the seventh year in a row, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) found none of the nation’s 12,000 mining operations met the criteria for one of the agency’s toughest enforcement tools, its pattern of violations (POV) screening. In MSHA’s annual screening of operations from Aug. 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021, the agency found…
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